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Residents who live at Decatur Housing Authority properties will soon be barred from smoking there as part of a nationwide smoking ban for federally subsidized public housing, and local officials are bracing for blowback. While the ban will take effect n

. A well-funded front group for tobacco, big oil, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies is behind an annual campaign aimed at sowing confusion and demonizing our civil justice system. “Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week” should be seen for what it really is:

The plan under consideration by the Village Board of Trustees to ban those sales is stirring up a lot of discussion. Not a single city in the county has dared to take on the discussion about highly taxed and vilified tobacco products which could be cut f

ordered a tobacco company to produce documents regarding the design of its rolling papers that are in the possession of one of its French subsidiaries in a trademark infringement countersuit after finding that French law does not entirely preempt the comp

Republic Tobacco LP must produce documents held by a subsidiary in France because it wholly owns the subsidiary and the material has been deemed relevant to its trademark and trade dress dispute, an Illinois federal magistrate judge determined Wednesday.

He said he’s had to adjust his marketing to appeal to an older crowd after Chicago hiked the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 last year. Rector, general manager at All in One Smoke Shop in Edgewater, said he consistently turns away 18- t

Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC) is working on legislation that would ban cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco from Loyola’s campuses. Electronic cigarettes would not be included in the ban.

Many Clear Lake residents support the ban because of health issues related to secondhand smoke and the litter smokers leave behind, the Globe Gazette reported . Resident Aimee Medellin, 22, said she's especially concerned about children being exposed to

Beginning on September 5, smoking of any kind, including e-cigarettes, will be banned at all Metro transit center locations in Missouri and Illinois. In addition to MetroBus and MetroLink trains, the ban will apply to all MetroLink stations and platform